Twelve tonnes of raw tobacco, two million cigarettes, £50,000 in cash and a tobacco processing plant were seized on this side of the border. Two highly-trained tobacco and cash detection dogs - Harvey and Meg - helped Irish Revenue officers seize 334,00

The first raw tobacco processing plant ever to be discovered in Northern Ireland has been raided by customs officers. Five people, three of them foreign nationals, were arrested in counties Tyrone and Down. Twelve tonnes of raw tobacco, two million cig

Northern Ireland is to be included in UK-wide proposals to introduce plain, non-branded packaging for cigarettes and other smoking products. Stormont's Health Minister Jim Wells said he expects to see plain packaging made compulsory in the UK by next ye

Cancer Focus NI believes that standardised packaging of tobacco products will help protect our future generations...any new regulations must be put before parliament by mid-January so that a vote can be taken in March. Standardised packaging could and sh

The region was one of the only places in the UK, along with Northern Ireland, where the proportion of people who smoke increased last year, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Unite the union has said the factory should become a "centre of excellence" for pouch tobacco and cigar production. However, its cost-cutting proposal would see the axing of cigarette lines and result in 376 job losses.

An alternative to closing the JTI Gallaher factory in Ballymena has been put forward by the Unite trade union... The union proposal would see the factory developed as a ‘centre of excellence’ for pouch tobacco and cigar manufacture, retaining 500 of the